Science Quotes

Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.

William Hiram Foulkes

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

French Prove

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

John Dewey

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Joseph Conrad

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Arthur C. Clarke

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

John Owen

I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Ricthe

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

J. Frank Dobie

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

Thomas H. Huxley

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Karl Barth

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.

Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Albert Einstein

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates, Law

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.

Euripides

Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Thomas H. Huxley

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

G. H. Hardy

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

Charles William Stubbs

The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Chapman Cohen

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Bragg

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Thomas Huxley

Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? Expediency asks the question - Is it political? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Josh Billings

Freedom is a clear conscience.

Periande

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Robert K. Merton

Science would be ruined if like sports it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads - By - Choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

Benoit Mandelbrot

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".

There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

William Shakespeare

There is only one nature - The division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.

Bill Wulf